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Vrtača
Vrtača. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Wertatscha (also Vertatscha) or Vrtača is a mountain, 2,180 m above sea level (AA), in the Karawanks on the border between Austria and Slovenia.

In the old German Alpine dialect it was also called the Deutscher Berg ("German Mountain", Slovenian Nemška gora) or Zinnenwand. Other names are Meniška gora (Mönchsberg) and Rtača.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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